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Definition of last

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Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

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Roughcast :: Roughcast (n.) A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings..

Everlastingness :: Everlastingness (n.) The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.

Antepenultima :: Antepenultima (n.) The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable..

Busk :: Busk (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset..

Blasting :: Blasting (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Scholastically :: Scholastically (adv.) In a scholastic manner.

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..

Tontine :: Tontine (n.) An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance..

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Elaterite :: Elaterite (n.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen..

Dure :: Dure (a.) To last; to continue; to endure.

Tegmental :: Tegmental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds..

Ectoderm :: Ectoderm (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

Refinery :: Refinery (n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

Caryatid :: Caryatid (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.

Last :: Last (a.) At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York..

Pumice :: Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone..